Staphylococcus aureus forms spreading dendrites that have characteristics of active motility

Staphylococcus aureus is historically regarded as a non-motile organism. More recently it has been shown that S. aureus can passively move across agar surfaces in a process called spreading. We re-analysed spreading motility using a modified assay and fo- cused on observing the formation of dendrite...

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Main Authors: Pollitt, Eric J.G., Crusz, Shanika A., Diggle, Stephen P.
Format: Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31946/